Monthly Archives: December 2008

Photo-A-Day

Deck them halls and all that stuff

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Deck them halls and all that stuff
Photo-A-Day #1344

I think that I’m out of my funk with the weather. At least with the photography side of things I am out of the funk. I came home to see that Allison had really done a great job of decorating the house. So I took advantage of that and decided to shoot some low light photos of the mantle. That hurricane lamp has been buried for a while and I was happy to dig it out this past week when Allison and Eva were away. We’ll be picking up some little silver balls to put in it as well.

Today was also very busy in my Big Box of Awesome! Even more people decided to go looking around in it. Check out who had their nose in the Big Box of Awesome!

Michelle from ZenGrrl dot com is going to make me a nice card with the software that you can have if you win BenSpark’s Big Box of Awesome!

Olga The Traveling Bra found a Mouse Pad in BenSpark’s Big Box of Awesome. That is the only “padding” you are gonna find on her blog.

Alli of Always Alli has is planning for the next 12 months because she found BenSpark’s 2009 Photo-A-Day Calendar in An awesome box that sadly, isn’t mine

Joe of JoeTech riffled through BenSpark’s Big Box of Awesome and told his readers I Snooped Around and Found More Free Stuff For You.

Have you actually seen everything that is in BenSpark’s Big Box of Awesome. Check out all the “revealed” items on my Flickr page.

The IZEA Insiders are set to launch a couple of great contests and we haven’t even officially begun yet. But the rest of the insiders and I are geared up and ready to go. We are recruiting people for our Crews (Leave a comment or use my contact page if you are interested in being a part of my crew, The “I’m Not A Famous Blogger” Crew)

One of the contests will start on December 16th. I can’t say anything about it until then but it will be great! The other one just popped up for us today. That is each one of us was offered a ticket to Affiliate Summit West in Las Vegas. I must have slipped up on my meds today because I said I didn’t want a ticket, I have no vacation time left. But then when I snapped out of it I realized that I was being offered a ticket that I could give away. I may be too late to give one away So if it is and you want to try and win a ticket from the other IZEA Insiders here are their links.

Heather of the TEDHeads crew has a ticket to give away.
Corrin of the Peanut Gallery Crew has a ticket to give away.
Julie of the IZEA Swarm Crew has a ticket to give away. She is also going to be at Affiliate Summit as the Blogging Lounge Mistress.
Lisa of the Spark-E Crew has a ticket to give away.
Steven Sanders of the IZEA Mafia Crew has a ticket to give away.
Brett of LiveWriterz Crew has a ticket to give away.

Photo-A-Day

A Bit Off my Game

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A Bit Off my Game
Photo-A-Day #1343

Some days don’t you feel like you’re just off your game? You can tell that this photo was something I took when off my game. I was eating dinner at D’Angelo and wanted to take a photo of the fact that I was there, there was a Christmas tree and also the mirror. Not the most compelling photo. It is raining and I think this feeling of being off happens a lot when it’s raining. It’s been raining pretty good here and I just feel off. Allison and Eva’s flight has been delayed so they’re not coming in until an hour later. Today I worked from home and when you work from home you can see everything that’s happening outside. When I’m at the office I have no concept of what is going on outside with the weather. But when I’m home I have to run things outside and I sit right by a window so I can see how dreary it is out there.

Today however was pretty productive. After work I took care of the rest of things that needed to be put away. I also noticed that there are many people who have revealed things in BenSpark’s Big Box of Awesome! I have no idea how anyone’s getting in to see this box. I did however find a few more things that I’m going to put into the box. Keep checking on the web and following me on Twitter to see what else is in BenSpark’s Big Box of Awesome! These folks found things.

Kat of Tough Girl Kat – dug around in BenSpark’s Big Box of Awesome and found a Retractable Modem Cord.

Magical Trevor of Nerdvana says Look what I’ve found!!! Apparently he snuck a peek inside BenSpark’s Big Box of Awesome and found some Hard Rock Cafe Key Covers.

Lenny of my Secret Project is playing Dress up with the funky Tie that he found in The “Big Box of Awesome” from Benspark

Pete of My GPS CameraPhone is urging his readers to snuggle up by the DVD fire because that is a prize they can get if they Win a Big Box of Awesome from BenSpark!

Mo of We’re in A Fight went on an amazing adventure to find something. She was looking for Sunshine…lollipops…and a Big Box of Awesome! What she found were the ninja claws of our cats.

Lynne of It’s My Imagination was able to find a Big Box of Awesome Contest and A Clue!

Today I also received a very important package. I can’t say much about it. That is, until December 16th. So you have to come on back here on December 16th to find out what was in the package I received today. Because what’s inside may benefit you or someone you know.

I noticed today on Twitter that there are a lot of people be nominated for what’s called the shortyawards. They are some sot of awards that have to do with Twitter. I got a nomination from Scott from AverageDudes. He nominated me in the personal category. He said that is because I post every single day on Twitter. And that’s true because I do post on Twitter I mostly post through Utterli. I’ve been using Utterli since Blog World Expo 2007 (and they were called Utterz). Every single day to post my photo a day. With Utterli I’m able to post to Twitter, my blog Google is Not God, and Flickr. I used to post to Pownce as well but Pownce is no longer around. I wonder how many other Web 2.0 companies are going to stop being around. At least with Pownce they gave me the XML files with all of the content that I posted there. While the content was redundant it’s still good to know that it was not totally lost.

As far as the ShortyAwards, I probably won’t win but I would love some nominations in the Personal Category if you like what I am doing here on this blog and on Twitter. Heres how you do it

To nominate someone for a Shorty Award, use the form on their site, or send a tweet similar to this:
“@shortyawards I nominate @benspark in category #personal because… (but write something of your own).”

And while you are at it, please nominate Ted Murphy of IZEA in the category of # #advertising. Something like this
“@shortyawards I nominate @tedmurphy in category #advertising because… (but write something of your own).”

I am always amazed at the connections that I make online. I’ve written about and even thrown a contest about Fry Sauce. Today I got a comment from Jim R. He used to make the fry sauce for an Arctic Circle. And he found my post about Fry Sauce and told me the correct way to make it.